John McCain Is So Mad That Faisal Shahzad, An American Citizen, Might Have Been Read Miranda Rights

From Wonkette.John McCain has paid us a visit from the sunny Arizona exurb of November 2008! Hello there! To what do we owe this great pleasure? “It is currently unclear whether federal authorities read alleged terrorist Faisal Shahzad his Miranda rights when he was arrested late Monday night, but two congressional Republicans are questioning whether that would have been a good idea. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said reading Shahzad his Miranda rights would be a ‘mistake,’” according to CBS News. Quoth McCain, “Don't give this guy his Miranda rights until we find out what it's all about.”

Miranda Rights—which stipulate that a suspect must be informed that he has the right to remain silent and the right to an attorney—are of course by design intended to be read to a suspect “before we find out what it’s all about.” This is literally the basis for their existence.

Still, it is a proven fact that John McCain thinks Miranda Rights are a grave threat against the United States’ security. Back in January, he bemoaned their rampant application following the Christmas Day underwear bomb incident. “Any chance of finding out Osama bin Laden's connection with this bombing vanished when the decision was made—without consulting any of our intelligence heads—by apparently the Justice Department with directions to low-level of the FBI, to give this individual . . . a trial in civil court, which then gave him his Miranda rights, and he was lawyered up,” he whined in his old-man way.